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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: From the Deserts They Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Mardudjara?
(a) A settlement for Aboriginal people.
(b) An area of Australia where beautiful flowers grow.
(c) An Aboriginal god.
(d) Several tribes of Aboriginal people who live in the desert regions.

2. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?
(a) They were established by the king of the Aboriginals.
(b) They were the first laws in Australia before the white people came.
(c) They have been around for a very long time.
(d) They were passed down by the Dreamtime spirit beings.

3. What do Dora's clan see coming through the desert?
(a) A train.
(b) White men droving a large herd of cattle.
(c) White men on a hunting trip.
(d) An army of white men.

4. Why did some Mardudjara people react violently to white construction workers?
(a) The workers burned down large areas of brush to build on.
(b) The workers refused to share their food.
(c) The workers killed a Mardudjara tribe on the site.
(d) The workers dug up a sacred site.

5. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?
(a) American.
(b) British.
(c) Australian.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main reason why the Mardudjara people decide to leave their desert?

2. How do they justify this?

3. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?

4. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?

5. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?

(see the answer key)

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